THE USE OF LISTEN READ DISCUSS (LRD)
STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION
CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Nowadays, science and technology
development demands people to increase their knowledge and experience. One way
to increase their knowledge and experience is by reading. Reading is one-step
to study effectively. Through this step, it can develop our memory,
comprehension, and more knowledge for example when the people study textbook,
article, short story, and even a novel. Reading can increase our science andgive
us knowledge information. Reading is an activity with a purpose. Someone may
read for many reasons, for instance to gain information and exiting knowledge,
or in order to critique a writer’s ideas or writing style.
Reading is one of the basic communicative
skill, but it has very complex process. It can be said that, reading is a
process in which reader finds information given by the writer in the written
form. In this case, reading can be said as an interactive process, checks, and
ask questions about what the text is about. Leonard (1961) states that reading
involves nothing more than correlating sound image, that is ”spelling” while
Robert Karim (1980) defines that reading is as a???????
